Editing Jerry Mouse (section)

===''Anchors Aweigh''===
On his own, Jerry Mouse appears in a fantasy sequence in the 1945 [[Gene Kelly]] MGM [[musical film]] ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]''.<ref name=nytimesGene>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0823.html |title=Gene Kelly, Dancer of Vigor and Grace, Dies |access-date=2010-05-13 |author=Albin Krebbs |date=February 3, 1996 |publisher=NY Times |archive-date=2010-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009061649/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0823.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Jerry appears as the young ruler of a kingdom where music is banned because he feels he lacks talent, and Kelly persuades the mouse into performing a song-and-dance number with him.<ref name="HannaonAnchors">{{Cite book|last=Hanna|first=William| author-link=William Hanna|title=A Cast of Friends|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2000|pages=61–64|isbn=978-0-306-80917-0}}</ref> Kelly and MGM had originally wanted [[Walt Disney]]'s [[Mickey Mouse]] as Kelly's dance partner for the sequence, but Disney was unwilling to license the character.<ref name="JBarberaAnchor">{{Cite book|last=Barbera|first=Joe|author-link=Joseph Barbera|title=My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century|publisher=Turner Publishing|year=1994|location=Atlanta, GA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/97 97–98]|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifeintoonsfro00barb/page/97|isbn=978-1-57036-042-8}}</ref>

Hanna and Barbera achieved the effect of Kelly dancing with Jerry by [[rotoscoping]]: live-action plates of Kelly dancing alone were shot first, and the action traced frame by frame so that Jerry's movements would match.<ref name="JBarberaAnchor"/> The success of the animated segment of ''Anchors Aweigh'', which was mentioned as "stealing the show" in contemporary trade reviews,<ref name="HannaonAnchors"/> led to two more live-action/animated projects for Hanna and Barbera and MGM: an underwater ballet sequence featuring both Tom and Jerry in the 1953 film ''[[Dangerous When Wet]]'', with [[Esther Williams]], and the "Sinbad the Sailor" sequence of Kelly's 1956 film ''[[Invitation to the Dance (film)|Invitation to the Dance]]''.<ref name="JBarberaAnchor"/>